In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders from Albemarle
County Public Schools, VA, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol,
Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate
how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable
success. The authors use progressive design principles to inform pathways
to disrupt traditions of education today and show you how to make
innovations real that will have a timeless and meaningful impact on
students, keeping alive the natural curiosity and passion for learning
with which children enter school.

The purpose of this book is to equip education change leaders with
a practical framework and human-centered tools and resources to lead
meaningful, sustainable change. In the last two to three years, the
conversation has shifted from "We need to change from the factory
model and here's why" to, "OK, we know that level of change
is needed. But how do we change?"

What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers
and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing
the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying
technological change. Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented
trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school
year. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings
doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children
learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential
skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge.

In this book, the authors from Envison Learning explain how project-based
learning can blend with Common Core-aligned performance assessment
for deeper learning. You'll discover how many schools have successfully
made the transition from traditional, teacher-centered learning to
project-based, deeper learning and find many practical ideas for implementation.
The Companion DVD and website include videos showing how to implement
deeper learning strategies in the classroom

Education authorities from around the globe explore deeper learning,
a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem
solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and
careers. Relying on research as well as their own experience, the
authors show how to use intensive curriculum, instruction, assessment,
and leadership practices to meet the needs of 21st century learners

As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited
by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their
chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms.
In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience
in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his
role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to
support a vision for a new world of learning.

Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students'
creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning
projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative
projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and
then put them into action. You'll take learning to new heights and
help students master core content.

Prakash Nair, Blueprint
for Tomorrow: Redesigning Schools for Student-Centered Learning,
Harvard Education Press, 2014
In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nairone of the worlds
leading school designersexplores the hidden messages that our
school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the alignment
of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century
learning goals. Blueprint for Tomorrow provides simple, affordable,
and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support
student-centered learning.

Every person, organization and region needs to get smartto
skill up, learn more and build new capacities faster and cheaper than
ever. In the long run, education is the economic development agenda.
Innovative new tools and schools are making it possible for individuals,
organizations, and cities to boost learning outcomes. Most learning
innovations occur in ecosystemsand these unique environments
begin with leadership and an innovation.

Over the course of a 3-month solo road trip across the United States,
author Grant Lichtman discovered that there is much to be positive
about in today's K-12 schools. Lichtman, one of the country's leading
experts in educational innovation, interviewed over 600 teachers,
administrators, students, parents, and trustees to find out what kind
of innovations they're doing rightand how others can leverage
their successes.

In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier
High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning.
Each student would design their own program instead of following the
daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks,
canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately
600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Centers
10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience,
each of them writing about why they left the standard curriculum and
joined the Center, what they did in the Center, and how the Center
has affected their adult lives.